Background: Despite apparent clinical benefits, few objective tissue texture measurements exist documenting post-OMT change. Spineliner® technology was used to analyze a portion of the cervical hysteresis curve; of four components used to calculate a durometer, motoricity (area under the curve) and fixation (tissue resistance) were analyzed before and after OMT.

Hypothesis: Cervical tissues will show a quantifiable decrease in fixation and motoricity changes after OMT.

Results: Statistically significant or highly suggestive changes in motoricity (OA, C2-C5) and fixation (OA, C3, C5-6) were seen post-OMT. Regardless of treatment type, the most significant changes in fixation and motoricity occurred at C5. There was an overall trend suggesting that of these procedures, ME provides the greatest immediate improvement of hysteresis characteristics. While fixation immediately increased at C2 when using BLT, HVLA, or CS (in worsening order), it showed immediate improvement with ME. A suggestive motoricity trend was also observed at the level of the OA, inferring an improved treatment response was obtained with BLT, HVLA, CS, and ME (least to most responsive order).

Below is some of the published research about instrument adjusting. This is not an exhaustive list but some selected articles will give you information about how rapidly instrument adjusting is developing.

The following articles give information about why measurement is necessary. Objective data for physical medicine is becoming more and more of an issue. Insurance companies will require more objective proof about how and why we do what we do. The Spineliner gives the doctor the power of objectivity.